“Then… Was he busy for the past two days?” Aubree asked carefully.
“That I’m not sure. You can always call him and ask him about it. He shouldn’t be busy with work right now. You have just been discharged from the hospital, so he should at least show up to meet with you.”
You may as well not have said that if you’re putting it that way. Aubree lowered her eyes as annoyance flashed across them. When she raised her head again, she acted politely and obediently. “Okay. I’ll give him a call later.”
Sonya sent Aubree all the way into the Pearson residence. She spoke to Gina for a short while before leaving. Gina and Aubree watched Sonya leave before returning to the mansion.
“Is your arm still hurting?” Gina stared at her daughter’s injured arm panickily. She rarely visited her daughter because she wanted her daughter’s relationship with Sonya to improve. However, that didn’t mean she wasn’t worried.
Aubree shook her head. Annoyance could be seen on her face. “I’m feeling fine. I’m heading upstairs now.”
Without speaking another word, she ascended the stairs. Gina’s eyebrows furrowed as she stared at her daughter’s back.
Moments later, she heard the sound of a door slamming coming from upstairs. It confused her because she didn’t know why her daughter was in a foul mood right after being discharged from the hospital.
As for Aubree, after locking herself in the room, she thought about what she should do before calling Lucian on the phone. She could only wait for Lucian to visit her when she was staying at the hospital. However, she had been discharged from the hospital. Even if he didn’t want to visit her, she could just go and see him.
All in all, she just didn’t want to give Lucian any more opportunities to meet with Roxanne. She stared at her phone with a frown as she tried her best to adjust her emotions.
It would be bad for her if he could hear the frustration in her voice, after all.
However, no one picked up the phone even after she waited for a long time.
Concurrently, Lucian had just finished applying medicine to Roxanne’s wound. After he bandaged it, his phone rang.
He pulled out his phone to check who it was with furrowed eyebrows. The moment he saw the name on the screen, he subconsciously looked at the woman in front of him and met her eyes.
Roxanne’s eyebrows tightened a little as she swept her gaze past the phone’s screen and saw the name.
It was as though the word “Aubree” was reminding her that she was getting too close to Lucian.
When she realized that, she pinched her palm, pretended to be calm, and pulled herself backward. She wanted to put as much distance as possible between herself and him. Her eyes lowered as she pretended that she didn’t exist.
In the next second, the vibrating sound stopped.
Her eyebrows remained furrowed as she subconsciously glanced at the phone. It was then she saw Lucian had hung up the call and stuffed it back into his pocket.
He stared into Roxanne’s eyes, which caused her to be stunned for a second.
“I’ve applied medicine to your wound and help bandaged your injury. Don’t you think I deserve some thanks for doing that, Ms. Jarvis?” His eyebrow was raised nonchalantly.
Hesitation flashed across her eyes. She wanted to ask him why he didn’t pick up Aubree’s call.
However, she quickly realized she didn’t have the right to ask about their matters.
When her train of thoughts arrived there, calmness returned to her eyes. Her voice sounded distant again. “Thank you, but it’s getting late. If there’s nothing else, you should go home early, Mr. Farwell. Since my leg is still injured, I won’t be sending you out.”
She wanted to cut her ties with Lucian as soon as possible before Sonya and Aubree came up with another scheme to set her up.
A frown appeared on his face. When I was applying medicine to her wound, she cooperated with me. I thought she had finally seen my good side. Apparently, I was wrong. I can’t believe she changed her stance so quickly! In one second, she was feeling grateful, but in the next, she tried to chase me away!
Since she wasn’t getting an answer, she turned to him with furrowed eyebrows and saw his angry eyes..
“I should ask you to stay for a meal, but Lysa hasn’t returned yet, and my leg is still injured, so forget about it.” Roxanne stubbornly continued to chase Lucian away. “I think you’re pretty busy. Since you have other things to attend to, I don’t think you should waste your time here.”
When she concluded her sentence, she could almost feel the rage spewing out of his eyes swallowing her. Her heart clenched as she wondered what he would do next.
Lucian stared at her for a long time before he snorted. “You saw that?”
Both of them knew what she saw.
Roxanne’s expression dimmed. Silence filled the air for a brief moment before she spoke. “It must be something important if Ms. Pearson is looking for you at this time of the day. You should. meet her as soon as possible.”
“If I go to meet her, what about you?” Lucian asked in a deep voice.
A strange feeling appeared in her heart. Aubree is his fiancée, and he has loved her for many years. How can I ever be compared to her? It feels as though he saying it to mock me.
When her thoughts ended there, she regained her composure and replied plainly, “My injury is all good now. Besides, I’m currently in my own house. I can just sit here and wait for Lysa to return. There’s no need for you to worry. Mr. Farwell.”
Despite the clear intentions she was expressing with her statements, Lucian still refused to leave.
Roxanne frowned as she tried to make herself sound calm. “Besides, I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to stay with me here at my house, while your fiancée waits for you to return.”
That prompted him to furrow his eyebrows. The rage in his eyes subsided. He raised his eyebrow and asked, “Are you… jealous, Ms. Jarvis?”
That stumped her because she didn’t expect he would say such a thing. Jealous? Is he listening to what he has just said? What kind of relationship does he think we have? Or does he still remember what I said when I was drunk…
When she returned to her senses, Roxanne stared at Lucian with a complicated feeling. “Are you mocking me, Mr. Farwell?”
His frown intensified. He didn’t understand why she suddenly said that.
Both of them stared at each other for a long while. The image of her being drunk that night surfaced in his mind. She is misunderstanding me again.
An odd feeling passed through his heart when the events of that night unfolded in his mind. He didn’t want to delve into that topic any further.
“In any case, I’m not leaving. Essie was clamoring to meet you, so I’ve asked Cayden to pick her up. I’m going to wait for her here.” Lucian looked away, stood up, and then sat on an armchair.
Soon after, he whipped out his phone and started dealing with his work. The words “do not disturb” were practically etched on his face as he focused on his business.
He was afraid that if they continued with the topic, Roxanne would bring up the matter from six years ago.
That was when she loved him the most, and it was also the period he didn’t want to recall at all.
Roxanne wanted to say something, but when she heard Estella was coming over and saw how he was acting, she kept her mouth shut while dealing with the complicated feeling inside.
Both of them remained quiet while thinking about different matters. Suddenly, serenity filled the atmosphere of the living room.
On the other side, Aubree’s scowl was getting pretty intense as she stared at the disconnected call and wondered what had happened. In the past, even when Lucian rejects me, he’ll at least pick up my call.
Why did he hang up the call today? Is he currently with that b*tch?
When that possibility popped up in her mind, her expression became wretched.
It was hard to tell how long Roxanne and Lucian stayed in the living room before her phone rang. It was from Lysa. Roxanne answered the call.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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